Authors:Daniel Otte (au), Richard D. Alexander (au),
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
Keywords: natural, sciences, phila, acad, monographs, crickets, orthoptera, gryllidae, australian
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 1983-03-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1422319288
ISBN-13: 9781422319284

This paper is devoted to the recording & description of the molluscan fossils contained in the Fargo & Locklin collection from N. St. Petersburg, FL, & now in the collections of the Acad. of Natural Sciences of Phila. This locality holds a special interest in the geology of Florida since it represents the most northwesterly known exposures of the widespread Caloosahatchee formation of southern Florida, made famous through the monumental work of William Dall on the tertiary Paleontology of Florida. It is also noteworthy because of the general fine state of preservation of its fossil

Authors:William J. Clench (au), Ruth D. Turner (au),
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
Keywords: acad, pub, natural, sciences, phila, special, crustacea, names, introduced, pilsbry, mollusca, new
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1962-03-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1422317846
ISBN-13: 9781422317846

This study is based upon the collections made over more than 30 years prior to 1943 by Ralph Steward at Rawalpindi in northwestern India. It was in 1911, as a young instructor there, that Steward commenced the gathering of specimens, & in 1912 that he made his first trip into Kashmir. Since then he had been repeatedly into the Himalayas, spending vacations in Kashmir & collecting in adjacent territory north to Baltistan & east to Ladakh; he traversed the mountains of Lahul & Kulu, & also summered at Landour above Dehra Dun. Author Pennell made Stewarts acquaintance in 1914

Authors:Horace G. Richards (ed), Rhodes W. Fairbridge (ed),
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
Keywords: acad, natural, sciences, phila, pub, special, bibliography, quaternary, shorelines, supplement, annotated
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1970-03-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 142231779X
ISBN-13: 9781422317792

The Lewis and Clark (L&C) Expedition of 1804-1806 is one of the great stories of exploration in America. Few of the scientific specimens collected by L&C survive, except for hundreds of pressed plants in The Acad. of Natural Sciences in Phila. Digital images in this CD-ROM show each plant in more detail than ever before. Browse through the collection, plant by plant. Read the labels written by Lewis in the field. Refer to facsimile reprints of the original records and colored engravings of Lewiss gatherings as pub. in the first comprehensive catalogue of American plants by Frederick Pu

Author: George M. Davis (au)
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
Keywords: monographs, triculinae, acad, natural, phila, sciences, river, mekong, gastropod, evolution, family, pomatiopsidae, emphasis, origin
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1979-03-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1422319261
ISBN-13: 9781422319260

This work began with 12 months of field work in Australia between June 1968 & June 1969. During approx. 46,000 miles of travel, the authors obtained data at 905 different localities, & visited all of the major Australian collections. Material in the European museums was examined on the return trip to the U.S. & many types were borrowed later. The National Insect Collection at Canberra subsequently sent their entire collection of crickets for further study & the Univ. of Queensland sent a major part of their collection. This work includes 492 species of which 376 are new. These

Authors:Dabney G. Hart (au), C.W. Hart, Jr. (au),
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
Keywords: natural, sciences, phila, acad, monographs, family, entocytheridae, ostracod
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1974-03-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1422319245
ISBN-13: 9781422319246

Covers all of the new names created by Pilsbry & his co-authors for both Recent & Fossil forms in the Mollusca & Crustacea. These names range in taxa from those above the family level to subspecies, varieties & forms. This work had its inception when the authors found it necessary to card out the new names which Pilsbry had instituted so that these names might be used in their own current problems of research in the field of malacology. As time went on, this catalogue increased in size & became a source of information to the staff. Its publication has make available a large

Author: Henry A. Pilsbry (au)
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
Keywords: north, sciences, phila, vol, natural, part, monographs, mollusca, america, mexico, land, acad
Number of Pages: 591
Published: 1948-03-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1422317781
ISBN-13: 9781422317785

The growth of our knowledge of the N. Am. land snail fauna in the past century is shown, so far as the number of species is concerned, in the table in this vol. Thomas Say & his contemporaries described species mainly of the Middle States, the Ohio & lower Missouri valleys, & a few from Florida. The first comprehensive treatment was that of Dr. Amos Binney, 1851-2, which included beautiful illus. & also Dr. Joseph Leidys pioneer anatomic observations. After that, William G. Binney & his collaborator Thomas Bland were the leading authorities up to nearly the end of the centu

Authors:Pisanus Constantius, Barbara Obrist,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: commentary, translation, collection, travaux, acad, critical, introduction, pisa, book, secrets, alchemy, constantine
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 1990-08-01
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 9004092889
ISBN-13: 9789004092884

The Liber Secretorum Alchimie, dating almost back to 1257, presents an attempt at introducing alchemy into the field of Aristotelian natural science (philosophy), with the purpose of providing the practice of manipulating metals with a solid theoretical foundation. Arranged from lecture notes by its author, a student of medicine originating from Pisa, it allows a direct insight into mid-13th century university teaching of natural science, which included astronomical, astrological, meteorological and geographical material. In the case of the present document, the main the